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  • Poetry of the Thirtiesby

    Penguin Books Ltd 2000; Not Available

    Auden, Day, Lewis, Spender, MacNeice and the other key poets of the Thirties were children of the First World War, obsessed by war and by communalism, by the class-struggle and a passionate belief in poets as people whose actions are as publically important as their poems.For them, the Spanish Civil War epitomized the mood of the times, as their symbolic... more...

  • The Penguin Book of Japanese Verseby

    Penguin Books Ltd 2009; Not Available

    Poetry remains a living part of the culture of Japan today. The clichés of everyday speech are often to be traced to famous ancient poems, and the traditional forms of poetry are widely known and loved. The congenial attitude comes from a poetical history of about a millennium and a half. This classic collection of verse therefore contains poetry from... more...

  • The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in Englishby

    Penguin Books Ltd 2005; Not Available

    Over the last few decades Caribbean writers - performance poets, newspaper poets, singer-songwriters - have created a genuinely popular art form, a poetry heard by audiences all over the world. At the same time, even at its most literary, Caribbean poetry shares the vigour of the oral tradition. Writers like Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott, and many... more...

  • Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticismby

    Penguin Books Ltd 2004; Not Available

    Controversy raged through England during the 1570-80s as Puritans denounced all manner of games & pastimes as a danger to public morals. Writers quickly turrned their attention to their own art and the first & most influential response came with Philip Sidney's Defense. Here he set out to answer contemporary critics &, with reference to Classical models... more...

  • Dichtungen der Universitätsjahre 1715-1719by

    De Gruyter 2013; US$ 321.00

    This edition includes manuscripts (re)discovered in Breslau and elsewhere, the contemporaneous collected editions, later transcriptions, and the Nachlässe of the scholars Enders and Kräme. The poems, letters, and the school dramas are arranged according to their periods of creation as well as traditional genres. The volume includes the original version... more...

  • The Odysseyby ; Robert Fitzgerald

    Random House Group Ltd 2010; US$ 9.33

    Penelope has been waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from Troy for many years. Little does she know that his path back to her has been blocked by astonishing and terrifying trials. Will he overcome the hideous monsters, beautiful witches and treacherous seas that confront him? And what new tests await him if he ever finally reaches his home... more...

  • Between Baudelaire and Mallarméby Helen Abbott

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 114.95

    Helen Abbott examines the verse and prose poetry of Baudelaire and Mallarmé, together with their critical writings, to address how their attitudes towards the performance practice of poetry influenced the future of both poetry and music. Abbott considers the meaning of 'voice' in terms of rhetoric, the human body, exchange, and music,... more...

  • Speak, Old Parrotby Dannie Abse

    Random House Group Ltd 2013; US$ 20.01

    2013 marks Dannie Abse's 90th birthday. In his lifetime he has published an astonishing array of work including poetry, fiction, criticism, plays and autobiography but it is as a poet that he is best known and loved. In Speak, Old Parrot he returns to themes of loss, love, medicine and its moral implications, the nature of creativity,... more...

  • Two for Joyby Dannie Abse

    Random House 2010; US$ 20.01

    Dannie and Joan Abse had been married for more than fifty years when she was killed in a car crash in 2005. After her death he wrote his extraordinary memoir of loss, The Presence , which was the Wales Book of the Year in 2008. In contrast, much of this new collection is a delightful celebration. In it Dannie Abse returns to their marriage... more...

  • Milton & Tolerationby Sharon Achinstein; Elizabeth Sauer

    OUP Oxford 2007; US$ 109.99

    Locating John Milton's works in national and international contexts, and applying a variety of approaches from literary to historical, philosophical, and postcolonial, Milton and Toleration offers a wide-ranging exploration of how Milton's visions of tolerance reveal deeper movements in the history of the imagination. Milton is often enlisted... more...